Good Days…Bad Days With Maureen Pratt

Good Days...Bad Days With Maureen Pratt Archives

The concept of a new year and how we approach it – with retrospectives, predictions, and resolutions – both puzzles and pleases me. It is good to take stock once in awhile, to assess where we’ve been, how much growth […]

Food for Thought: What You Hear in SilenceWe can learn much, when we cultivate silence. It might seem counter-intuitive; our learning usually takes the form of words or pictures or sounds, tangible things that have size, depth, tone, and space.
But beyond all of those things that we can feel is something more profound - it is what you he

A Praying Spirit: Thank You, God!
What if all of your prayers today were of thanksgiving and appreciation? What if, instead of a laundry list of petitions or a few moments spent in distracted longing for relief, w

Chronic Illness and Pain: Letting Your Guard DownI've had to increase the dosage of the immunosuppressive drug I'm taking for my lupus and anti-retinal antibodies. This makes me even more susceptible to infections - at a time when the flu season is just kicking into high gear!
About now, too, I'm getting very weary of fending off potential infe

TLC Tuesday: Award Yourself!
Here in Southern California, the awards season is winding down. For the past few months, a crescendo of award ceremonies, large and small, has built up to last Sunday night's fe

Food for Thought: Sifting through All That Info!When you're diagnosed with a chronic illness especially one that is very serious and affects many aspects of your life, you might feel overwhelmed by the amount and variety of information available to you. The moment you leave the doctor's office, your head might start spinning with what he or she t